International law and drone strikes in Pakistan : the legal and socio-political aspects / Sikander Ahmed Shah.
2015
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Author
Title
International law and drone strikes in Pakistan : the legal and socio-political aspects / Sikander Ahmed Shah.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
KZ6687 .S53 2015
ISBN
9780415828017
0415828015
9780203521779 (e-book)
0415828015
9780203521779 (e-book)
Description
viii, 247 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)896592535
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
1.
Legality of drone strikes
1
Introduction and historical background
1
International law governing the use of force in self-defense and the US war in Afghanistan
12
The legality of US drone attacks in Pakistan
32
2.
Consent and territorial sovereignty
70
State sovereignty in international law
70
The doctrine of consent in international law and state/territorial sovereignty
73
How the law of consent and sovereignty intersects with drone attacks in Pakistan
88
The scope of consent extended, the nature of such consent, its conformity with peremptory norms, and its retraction
95
3.
Drones and compliance with human rights law
109
Background
109
Mutual application of IHRL and IHL
111
Extraterritorial application of core human rights treaties and customary international human rights law in armed conflict or otherwise
121
Regional bodies and courts
135
Contraventions of IHRL by the US and Pakistan: a reality?
138
Wha is different about drones?
150
4.
Drone strikes and compliance with international humanitarian law
156
Background
156
The applicability of Common Article 3
162
The legality of the weapon
163
Use of the weapon
174
The combatant in a time of drones
176
5.
The social and political impact of drones in Pakistan
194
The drone victim
196
Litigating on the drones: the interaction of drone victims with the Pakistan legal system
211
The impact of drones on FATA
223
Conclusion
226
6.
Conclusion
230
Remedies and course of action
230
The way forward
239
Index
243